Utah Admin. Code R432-750-2 - Purpose
(1) A hospice licensee provides support and
care for individuals with a limited life expectancy so that they might live as
fully and comfortably as possible.
(2) A hospice licensee offers services that:
(a) are available in both the home and an
inpatient setting;
(b) are offered
through an interdisciplinary team of professionals and volunteers;
(c) neither hastens nor postpones
death;
(d) recognize dying as a
normal process resulting from disease or injury;
(e) prepares a patient and family to attain a
degree of mental and spiritual preparation for death that is satisfactory to
them through appropriate care and the promotion of a caring community sensitive
to their needs; and
(f) provides
physical, psychosocial, spiritual, and bereavement care for a dying individual
and their family.
(3)
This rule applies to a program advertising or presenting to be a hospice or
hospice program of care, as defined in Section
26B-2-201, that provides,
directly or by contract, hospice services to the terminally ill.
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